God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Making decisions is probably the most important thing people ever do. Nothing happens until someone makes a decision. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Constitutional government, as designed by the framers, will survive only with a righteous people. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Young people, your parents, with their maturity of years and experience you have not had, can provide wisdom, knowledge, and blessings to… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Freedom is an eternal principle. Heaven disapproves of force, coercion and intimidation. Only a free people can be truly a happy people. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon was written for us today. God is the author of the book. It is a record of a… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I am a witness to nations and people deprived of their freedom. I was there. I watched that great Iron Curtain drop… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord's counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
From the 5th grade through the 4th year of college, our young people are being indoctrinated with a Marxist philosophy and I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives - a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
There are some who apparently feel that the fight for freedom is separate from the Gospel. They express it in several ways,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost causes our feelings to be more tender. We feel more charitable and compassionate with each other. We are more… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord’s counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
And so today, the undermining of the home and family is on the increase, with the devil anxiously working to displace the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
In these sacred documents are embodied eternal principles that no man, group of men, or nation has the right to withhold from… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
[Joseph Smith] foresaw the time when the destiny of the nation would be in danger and would hang as by a thread.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I have seen what the days of tribulation can do to people. I have seen hunger stalk the streets of Europe. I… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
By deriving it's just powers from the governed, government becomes primarily a mechanism for defense against bodily harm, theft, and involuntary servitude.… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Every Latter-day Saint should make the study of this book a lifetime pursuit. Otherwise, he is placing his soul in jeopardy and neglecting that… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“We must each of us do our home work. 'My people are destroyed,' said Hosea, 'for lack of knowledge.' We must be wise as… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“Man…need not stand alone. Prayer will open doors; prayer will remove barriers; prayer will ease pressures; prayer will give inner peace and comfort during… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Humility does not mean weakness. It does not mean timidity. It does not mean fear. A man can be humble and fearless. A man… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
That government is best which governs the least, so taught the courageous founders of this nation. This simple declaration is diametrically opposed to the… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
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